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Originally Posted by bmussatti
Hey, if Jay Leno can drive the wheels off that thing, I am thinking Rail26 could do the same...if not better! Now, lets see if Jay can fly an Apache.
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There's an episode of "Rides" where Mark Donohue's son, also a race driver, coaches Jay Leno how to drive the CGT so that production car speed records could be attempted at the track. There was a whole team of mechanics working on the CGT that would be used for the records and another for practice.
As you imagine, race drivers, like pilots, don't make very good passengers. Donohue didn't like being in the car with Jay Leno. Donohue said that anybody can be taught to drive at 150 mph but every mile per hour above that becomes more and more dependent on the god given talent of the driver and exponentially less forgiving of errors. Jay Leno did pretty good but he did lose it in practice and spun five times around. You could see the whole support team cringing and hoping that he wouldn't hit the wall (he didn't).
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